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About Robert Roger Whitehead

Robert Whitehead, the son of a cotton-bleacher, was born in Bolton on January 3rd, in 1823. After being educated at the local grammar school, Whitehead left at fourteen to become an apprentice engineer. For the next few years he attended Manchester's Mechanics Institute.

In 1844 Whitehead went to work in France and three years later started his own business in Milan. By the 1850s Whitehead was working for the Austrian government. Whitehead had been asked to develop a new weapon based on the papers of a now-unknown officer of the Austrian Marine Artillery whose documents describing the initial designs had come to Captain Giovanni (Ivan) Luppis von Rammer, who in turn had taken them to the Emperor Franz Josef. The Emperor was impressed, and called for a development team to be assembled to design the weapon. The English engineer, Robert Whitehead had an established business in Fiume (modern-day Rijeka) and produced for them a floating torpedo. Luppis signed over all rights to Whitehead. The first torpedo lacked speed and range. However, by 1870 he had managed to increase its speed to 7 knots and could now hit a target 700 yards away. The following year the British Navy purchased Whitehead's invention.

Although a star torpedo, a charge attached to a long pole and carried by a small boat, had been used during the American Civil War, Whitehead was the first to produce a self-propelling torpedo. Whitehead's torpedo was propelled by a compressed-air engine, carried 18lbs. of dynamite. Its most important feature was a self-regulating device which kept the torpedo at a constant preset depth.

Robert's obituary, published in "The New York Times" of 15 November 1905:

"Robert Whitehead Dead. LONDON, Nov. 14 - Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo which bears his name, died to-day at Shrivenham, Berkshire. The idea of the self-propelling torpedo originated with an officer of the Austrian marine artillery, but the first practical trials of the torpedo were made in 1864 by Mr Whitehead, who was the Superintendent of iron works in Fiume [Rijeka]. From that time on the Whitehead Torpedo has undergone many improvements, and the right to use it has been purchased by the United States and most of the European nations."